The Rubber Fig of Castle Peak Road, Kwai Chung

The tallest India-rubber tree on Hong Kong's register of old and valuable trees does not stand on the Peak or in a famous park. It grows in a roadside sitting-out area on Castle Peak Road in Kwai Chung, 32 metres tall, with a crown spreading 43 metres. Its trunk measures 4.85 metres across at chest height. That is 15 centimetres short of the rubber tree on Lugard Road, the widest in the whole register, and like that tree it is not one trunk so much as a crowd of them, a mass of stems built from aerial roots. Put the two side by side on paper and the Kwai Chung tree wins on everything but those 15 centimetres. It is seven metres taller than the Lugard Road tree, and its crown is fifteen metres wider. The Lugard Road tree has a footpath running through it and a place on the Hong Kong Trail. This one has a sitting-out area run by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the traffic of Castle Peak Road. On height and spread, it is the bigger tree. The sitting-out area is public and free. Kwai Hing MTR station is about a kilometre away as the crow flies, and the garden is uphill on the Castle Peak Road side. The tree was recorded alive at its August 2026 inspection. Nobody has dated it; if you can, tell us.